Building Quotes

This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing

Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen.It is the same with dreams.

Never build after you are five and forty have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Only a real pastor and a true leader will be looking for ways to train and equip his people to develop their potential.

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.

Old houses mended

Do not seek popularity or self-affirmation; just show people God’s love and mercy, and help them to prosper and succeed. Simply serve God

While you were born with a self-worth and is a gift of God to you to begin your life with, your net worth is what you build here on earth and what you choose to do with the resources and gifts that you have been given.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)

A real pastor — a good shepherd — is always concerned about the personal development of every individual person in his church.

Cautiously, he moved further out, checking the roofs, doors, windows. Nothing. He walked out further, keeping against the wooden wall of a building, just in case. His heart was pounding in his ears. Strange, isn’t it? You could be in hundreds of fights, but everyone always seemed like the first time. A million different things could happen, go completely wrong. Then it might well be his last. Where is he? Which building?

If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.